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EPHRAIM-BALL, JR., OF CANTON, OHIO.

' Letters Patent No. 65,529, dated June 11, 1867. i

PLOUGHS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM BALL, Jr., of Canton, in the county of Stark, and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful improvements in Combination Iron Ploughs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, of which drawings Figure 1 is a side view of my plough with east-iron attachments.

Figure 2 is an end view of same with land-side detached.

Figure 2 is a side View of my plough with steel attachments Figure 4 is a plan of the same.

Figures 5 and 6 are views of my cast-iron plough-point.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the cast-iron land-side.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the steel land-side.

Figure 9 is a perspective view of the beam with all attachments removed.

Figure 10 is a perspective view of the beam laid on its side, and showing the brace and bar.

Figures 11 and 12 are views of the steel plough-point.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and combination of the several parts of a plough with an iron beam, in such a manner as that the plough may be readily changed from a plough with cast-iron mould-board point and land-side to one with steel mould-board point and land-side, or vice verse, or from a plough with all its wearing surface cast iron or steel to a plough with wearing surfaces partly of steel and partly of cast iron. The-beam and handles in all these changes remain the same.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The beam A is made in form shown. To one of its lower sides is attached the mould-board B, by means of.

the bolts 0 and d. This mould-board may be made either of cast iron, as shown at B, in figs. 1 and 2, or of steel, as shown at C, in figs. 3 and 4, the mould-board being made of the same shape ineither case, and being secured in the same manner, by the bolts 0 d. The cast-iron point Dis secured by means of the iron e, which is bolted to the mould-board B, and to which the pointDis secured by a bolt passing througlrthe holep in point, and through the iron 0, and having a net on the inside, and also by a bolt, .2, passing throughthe hole 9 in the point and the lower part of the plough-beam. The lower part of the plough-beam extends backwards, forming a place for the attachment of one of the plough-handles, and also a support for the land-side. The brace 70 is cast in the beam, and serves to strengthen the beam, and also prevent any dirt from falling down over the landside and through the concavity of the beam into the furrow. Across the lower part of the beam is placed the bar 0, shown by dotted lines in figs. 1 and 3, which serves to firmly connect the sides of the beam and to secure the land-side. In the sides of the beam, to which the land-side is attached, are cut the two grooves s and t; the object of the groove 3 being to allow the face of the landside to come flush with theface of the beam, and the groove t serving to hold the part T of the steel point. At the top of the groove at 7t is cut a clove-tail or V-shaped groove, which holds the projection 71. at the end of the land-side, thus preventing them from springing out from the beam. The lower part of the cast-iron land-side is secured by the hook L which hooks over the bar a, the blocks H and I fitting in the groove 25, thus giving a firm bearing to the bottom of the land-side, and the rear part of the land-side is secured by a bolt passing through the hole 20 and the part 3 of the beam. The fluke F on the point D serves as a cutter. The L-s'haped block G is cast in the point D, and serves to give the said point D a firm bearing against the toe a of the beam, which it would not otherwise have, ns'said toe is cut away by the groove t to allow the fitting of the part T of the steel point E. The steel pointE is secured to the mould-board C by the iron e, the same as the iron point D, and to the beam by bolt 2, in a position thesame as that of the bolt 2, passing through the hole g of the iron point D, and is further secured by the bolt 3/ passing through the part T and part 3 of the beam. The steel land-side M is secured by the hook N, which hooks over the bar 0, and by a bolt passing through the hole 11/ and the part .9 of the beam, the upper part of said land-side being held firm by the projection n fitting in a dove-tail at h in the groove s, as before shown. The cutter P is held at the bottom by a pin in the point E, which fits into a hole in the cutter P, and theupper part is secured by being fitted into the grooves a a in the beam A and bolts 6 which pass through the cutter and beam.

It is readily seen'that in changing the plough from the form shown in figs. 1 and 2 to that shown in figs. 3 and 4, the mould-board 13 may be used instead of changing it to the mould-board C, thus making the wearing parts of the plough partly of cast iron and partly of steel, as is sometimes advantageous.

I do not claim as my invention the plouglrbeam A, points Der E, land-side K or M, mould-boards B or 0, nor cutter I, taken separately, as these have been used, and some of these patented, but what I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Let-tersPatent, is-

1. S0 constructing a metal plough-beam as that the parts that are attached thereto can be made either of cast iron or of steel, or of both, substantially in the manner herein specified.

2. The combination of a steel mould-board, point, and land-side, with cast-iron plough-beam, when said plough-beam serves for the purpose of a support to the mould-board, point, and land-side, and also for a ploughbeam, substantially in the manner herein specified.

3. The brace is and bar 0, when used in connection with the plough-beam A, substantially in' the manner and for the purpose herein specified."

4. The groove 13 in the plough-bea1n A, when arranged in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

5. The dove-tail at It, in the top of the groove .9, when used in connection with the projections n on the land-sides K and M, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

G. The attachment of the cutter P to the cast-iron plough-beam A in the grooves a a in said beam, in the manner herein specified.

7. The L-shaped block G in cast-iron point D, when said point is used as a part of the cast-iron attachments, in the manner herein specified.

8. The blocks H and I and the hooks L and N, constructed and arranged in the manner herein specified.

As evidence I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EPHRAIM BALL, JR.

Witnesses:

CnAs. F. MANDnnsoN, E. N. BEEBOUT. 

